Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aps..apr.m1003m&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Until recently, it was thought that black holes in the universe came in two flavors: ones with the mass of a large star and ones with millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun. There is growing evidence that an intermediate class, with masses hundreds to thousands of times that of our Sun, exists in some regions of star formation in other galaxies and possibly in our own Galaxy's globular cluster system. The formation of these objects is a fascinating mystery, because in the current universe they cannot be born directly from the collapse of a massive star. I will describe some of the implications of different models. In particular, I will discuss the intriguing possibility that because at least some of these objects reside in dense stellar clusters, they may represent a new class of gravitational wave sources with properties that could yield unique insights about the nature of strong gravity.
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